Needless Resistance

On Angola's fertile soil, the smoke of war had not completely dissipated with the collapse of the Kingdom of Portugal's colonial regime, even though East Africa had destroyed Angola's spiritual pillar—Luanda.

For compared with Luanda, there remained a group of "true" masters on Angola's soil. Their most tangible interests were not some so-called "patriotic sentiment," but Angola's land and abundant produce.

Angola's plantations and mines—these "Portuguese" who truly lived in Angola—their resistance against East Africa had not ended with the fall of Portuguese rule.

During the war for Luanda, East Africa had no leisure to manage these plantation or mine owners. Now that the frontal war had ended, East Africa had no choice but to launch a new round of military operations to obtain Angola's land.

Engeha.

Engeha lay 267 kilometers from Luanda. It was a Portuguese plantation, and at this moment, a company from the 416th Division was fighting the plantation's guards here.

Gunfire rose and fell from the furrows on the left side of the Engeha plantation. Arcing shells from grenade launchers struck the ground, sending up plumes of black smoke that smudged the lush green fields.

"These old grenade launchers still use black powder. Their power can't compare to smokeless powder, but the smell of gun smoke at the muzzle is even more intoxicating!" Company Commander Parker said with great satisfaction from the temporary trench.

As a newly formed unit, much of Parker's equipment had yet to be updated. It was all old stock hauled out of East Africa's defense warehouses.

Smokeless powder was a great invention, but the point at which East Africa could produce it had come too close to the South African War. Thus, even before the war, not every unit could be equipped with new weapons and ammunition.

To Parker, though these weapons